by Joseph Lee | Sep 11, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Bullying is about unmanaged aggression and broken containment in early life. Aggression is normal, but kids need adults to name it, hold it, and channel it into play with clear rules. When that doesn’t happen, some children learn to control and humiliate...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 24, 2025 | Core Jungian Concepts, Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Inner guidance is Psyche’s built-in orienting system, a silent interlocutor that Jung named the Self. When the ego listens to that source, life organizes around an inner axis rather than around social noise. The conversation begins in dreams: every night...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 17, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Adolescence is a transitional life stage marked by profound biological, psychological, social, and cultural changes. Spanning roughly the second decade of life (and often extending into the early twenties), it bridges childhood and adulthood in complex...
by Joseph Lee | Jan 24, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO Art Credit: Jano Tantongco, jano.tantongco@gmail.com AUDIO Pamela Power, a Los Angeles Jungian analyst and author, joins us in exploring the psychological and social tensions caused by the current catastrophic wildfires in her city. Fire is the great eraser. It...
by Joseph Lee | Jan 16, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO Art Credit: Jano Tantongco, jano.tantongco@gmail.com AUDIO Shoes as Symbols connect identity, culture, and creative adaptation. Shoes reflect our movement through life and mark pivotal transitions, helping us hold the tension between vulnerability and agency....
by Joseph Lee | Oct 31, 2024 | Archetypal, Cultural Currents
VIDEO Art Credit: Jano Tantongco, jano.tantongco@gmail.com AUDIO The Satanic Panic emerged as a uniquely intense moral panic, capturing public imagination and sparking widespread anxiety. This wave of hysteria originated in the 1980s amid fears of Satanic ritual abuse...